Barlow has been given an Official Number One Award for his Diamond Jubilee anthem Sing, while the related long player takes the number one spot in the album chart.
The song, which Barlow co-wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber, became the biggest selling number one of 2012 yesterday, racking up 142,000 sales in the week since the Jubilee concert.
Meanwhile the Sing album outstripped the rest of the top five albums combined, making it the first official chart double of the year so far, and the second of Barlow’s career. His first chart double was Take That’s 2006 comeback single Patience and accompanying album Beautiful World.
Barlow was presented with an award from the Official Charts Company to celebrate 60 years of the UK single chart. The trophy will be presented, in partnership with BBC Radio 1, to each new single that reaches the coveted number one spot this year.
‘It’s been such a great week; it would take something very special to top it,’ Barlow said. ‘I’d like to say thanks on behalf of about 200 people as we’ve got a massive cast on this record. I love collaborating with other artists and being able to put them all on one stage the other night was such an honour for me. It’s something I’ll never forget.’
Sing co-writer Andrew Lloyd Webber added: ‘The last time I had a number one album and number one single at the same time was for Evita in 1976 when both the album and Don’t Cry for me Argentina were at the top of the charts. So this is fantastic news about Sing. Roll on the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee!’
The song was performed last weekend at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace, with vocals from Military Wives Choir and members of the Commonwealth Band, conducted by Military Wives Choir master Gareth Malone.
The song, which Barlow co-wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber, became the biggest selling number one of 2012 yesterday, racking up 142,000 sales in the week since the Jubilee concert.
Meanwhile the Sing album outstripped the rest of the top five albums combined, making it the first official chart double of the year so far, and the second of Barlow’s career. His first chart double was Take That’s 2006 comeback single Patience and accompanying album Beautiful World.
Barlow was presented with an award from the Official Charts Company to celebrate 60 years of the UK single chart. The trophy will be presented, in partnership with BBC Radio 1, to each new single that reaches the coveted number one spot this year.
‘It’s been such a great week; it would take something very special to top it,’ Barlow said. ‘I’d like to say thanks on behalf of about 200 people as we’ve got a massive cast on this record. I love collaborating with other artists and being able to put them all on one stage the other night was such an honour for me. It’s something I’ll never forget.’
Sing co-writer Andrew Lloyd Webber added: ‘The last time I had a number one album and number one single at the same time was for Evita in 1976 when both the album and Don’t Cry for me Argentina were at the top of the charts. So this is fantastic news about Sing. Roll on the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee!’
The song was performed last weekend at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace, with vocals from Military Wives Choir and members of the Commonwealth Band, conducted by Military Wives Choir master Gareth Malone.
